Riders at Wheathall Farm Livery Yard in Whitburn held three charity events in aid of the Great North Air Ambulance, after 16-year-old Frankie Pitt suffered a bleed to her brain when she fell from her horse at the Pony Club Area Horse Trials at ...

The big top show, whose owners Bobby and Moira Roberts face charges of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal, is at Wheathall Farm in Whitburn. A small group from Northern Animal Rights waved placards and a banner and handed out leaflets.

Protesters will be at the site in Wheathall Farm, Mill Lane, Whitburn, from 7pm. It comes after national animal protection charity the Captive Animals' Protection Society (Caps), called for a public boycott of the circus. Charity director Liz Tyson ...